AWS setting up command line tools in Cygwin

Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2012

I use the amazon command line tools a lot, its often a
quicker way to accomplish things quickly versus the AWS web interface, though the AWS web interface has gotten a lot
better over the past few years)

In this guide I am going to show how to set up the command
lines tools using Cygwin, I have another (slightly different guide for Ubuntu)

This guide of course assumes you already have an Amazon AWS
account.

Cygwin AWS setup

First you need a place to put all the keys you will use from
AWS. These keys will be referenced by
your program

4 comments:

You might want to add setting the Region Endpoint to the tutorial. I use US-WEST-2 (Oregon) for everything, and the ec2-describe-keypairs wasn't returning any data because it was defaulting to US-EAST-1 (N. Virginia). Once I added:

$ ec2-describe-keypairsClient.UnsupportedProtocol: SOAP is not supported for API version [2014-05-01]. Please refer to the following documentation for more details: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-soap-api.html